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He was also a patron of the Concertgebouw Orchestra and Scouting Netherlands. [10] On Claus' seventieth birthday, the Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development was established on the initiative of the Dutch government. The fund focused on enhancing understanding of cultures and promoting interaction between culture and development. [10]
Countess Eloise of Orange-Nassau, Jonkvrouwe van Amsberg (Eloise Beatrix Sophie Laurence; born 8 June 2002), in the media often styled as simply Eloise van Oranje, [1] [2] [3] is the first child and daughter of Prince Constantijn and Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands. She is the first grandchild of Queen Beatrix and Prince Claus of the ...
Willem-Alexander (Dutch: [ˈʋɪləm aːlɛkˈsɑndər]; Willem-Alexander Claus George Ferdinand; born 27 April 1967) is King of the Netherlands.. Willem-Alexander was born in Utrecht during the reign of his maternal grandmother, Queen Juliana, as the eldest child of Princess Beatrix and Prince Claus.
Eventually, the Dutch people accepted Claus and he became a beloved prince consort. [5] They had three sons: Willem-Alexander (born 1967), Friso (1968–2013) and Constantijn (born 1969). Prince Claus died of complications of pneumonia and Parkinson's disease at the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam on 6 October 2002 after a long illness ...
Prince Claus of the Netherlands: 10 March 1966 Prince consort of the Netherlands (1980–2002) Husband of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands Field marshal Admiral of the fleet Marshal of the air force: King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand: 12 May 1960 King of Thailand (1946–2016) Head of the Royal Thai Armed Forces (1946–2016) Field marshal ...
Prince Maurice of the Netherlands, 1843–1850: Alexander, Prince of Orange, 1851–1884: Juliana 1909–2004, Queen of the Netherlands, 1948–1980: Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, Prince of the Netherlands 1911–2004: Beatrix,1938–, Queen of the Netherlands,1980–2013: Claus van Amsberg,1926–2002, Prince of the Netherlands
Claus and Beatrix had met at the wedding-eve party of Princess Tatjana of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg and Moritz, Landgrave of Hesse, in summer 1964. After Parliament consented to the marriage, Claus von Amsberg became a Dutch citizen, and upon his marriage became Prince Claus of the Netherlands, Jonkheer van Amsberg.
Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau (Dutch: Johan Friso Bernhard Christiaan David van Oranje-Nassau van Amsberg; 25 September 1968 – 12 August 2013) was the second son of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands and Claus von Amsberg, and younger brother of King Willem-Alexander.